WordWhile 2.1.1

Nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, proverbs, great prose, and poetry. These timeless texts are incomplete and offer a clever challenge. Even if you don't know the answer, our "Wrong answers" are usually quite humorous. And now, you can even add your own! With nearly 5,000 timeless words in 50 playable texts, featuring over 1,500 missing words and 15,000 hand-crafted alternative options to choose from...or avoid.

• RELAX in Zen Mode or THRILL with Timed Mode
• LAUGH at the Silly solutions
• REFLECT on the Tricky ones and the source texts
• CREATE custom solutions
• READ the original texts
• SAVE your completed texts however you filled those gaps
• REVIEW your saved versions
• COMPARE your solution to the author's
• ADMIRE the elegant Victorian styling
• ENJOY a growing collection of playable texts (see below)

FUN FOR AGES 10+

• DISCOVER classic texts playfully with your children
• GIGGLE at the puns, crazy rhymes, and category errors
• GROW from accessible texts like proverbs and nursery rhymes to literary gems from Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron, Wordsworth, and more
• BOOKISH KIDS love it, even if (especially because?) it’s not explicitly "made for kids"

CLASSROOM and LIBRARY FRIENDLY:

• Unlimited player profiles on the same device
• No ads or in-app purchases
• Works offline
• No external links or sharing outside the app

SILLY FUN or EXTREME LITERARY SPORT:

• Think you know these texts inside out? Try purposefully selecting the "wrong" Tricky word every time with a time limit. We call that 100% Novel. It can be challenging!
• Do you have the endurance to complete the Virtuoso Race on "Once more unto the breach"? How about the "Major-General’s Song"?
• Achievements for all modes of play, text collections, and challenge categories. How many can you earn?

WARNING: possible side effects of playing WordWhile include: increased vocabulary, improved memory, greater familiarity with literary classics, learning poems and famous speeches by heart...and laughter. The WordWhile Editorial Team assumes no responsibility for any learning incurred as a result of playing WordWhile...but the laughing is entirely our fault.

WHICH TIMELESS TEXTS?

The collection of playable texts is continually growing, and any new texts will be available as free updates. When WordWhile receives an update, be sure to check out "What's New" for fresh texts to try.

1. "Proverbs": Over 40 well-known proverbs divided into eight playable texts
2. "Shakespeare: Speeches and Sonnets": "To be or not to be", "O Romeo", "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day", and five others
3. "Children's Classics": Eight nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, and several "Poems Every Child Should Know," including "Jabberwocky" (ADDED September 2017)
4. "Pickin's from Dickens": "Please, sir, I want some more", "It was the best of times", and ten more (ADDED September 2017)
5. "Selected Poems": "How do I love thee", "She walks in beauty," "Death, be not proud," and five more (ADDED Winter 2017)
6. "Love, sweet love": "Roses are red," quotes from Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night," Hamlet's love letter to Ophelia, Hugo, Austen, Burns (eight texts, ADDED Valentine's Day 2018)